Greek donors-collectors of art in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century: the cases of Georgios Averoff, Alexandros Soutsos and Antonis Benakis

Abstract

The subject of the dissertation is a special aspect of the cultural life and activity of part of the ruling class in Greece, which is summarized in the relation of certain donations / bequests of artistic and wider cultural collections in Greece to the collectors' identity and the ethnographic process. The donor / legacies to the Greek nation-state of three private cultural collections include: Georgios Averoff (1818-1899), Alexandros Soutsos (1839-1895) and Antonis Benakis (1873-1954), who during a century, almost from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, introduce in the academic field the subject that has been described in historiography as "benevoleism" and concerns the benefactors.

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DOI
10.12681/eadd/42216
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/42216
ND
42216
Alternative title
Έλληνες δωρητές-συλλέκτες έργων τέχνης στο δεύτερο μισό του 19ου αιώνα και το πρώτο μισό του 20ού: οι περιπτώσεις των Γεωργίου Αβέρωφ, Αλεξάνδρου Σούτσου και Αντώνη Μπενάκη
Author
Misirloglou, Theoktisti (Father's name: Nikolaos)
Date
2017
Degree Grantor
University of Ioannina
Committee members
Αδαμοπούλου Αρετή
Σολομών Εσθήρ
Δανός Αντώνης
Δασκαλοθανάσης Νικόλαος
Θεοδώρου Βασιλική
Φερεντίνου Βικτωρία
Ιωαννίδης Κωνσταντίνος
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsArts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
Keywords
Art collections
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
354 σ., im., tbls.
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